When Bert Thorp was born on 26 July 1885, in Sebewa Township, Ionia, Michigan Territory, United States, his father, Giles Dalton THORP, was 38 and his mother, Harriet Mosher, was 31. He married Ethel Adaline Young on 24 December 1910, in Ionia, Ionia, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Ionia, Michigan, United States in 1935. He died on 5 July 1946, in Sebewa Township, Ionia, Michigan, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Lake Odessa, Ionia, Michigan, United States.